🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi.  First, please, be kind enough to permit me to get something off my 
chest:

F**k MicroSoft and Bill Gates for their damn arrogance!

Thank you for hearing me.  I feel better now.  On to the questions at hand.

(1)  I have just installed MS Word for Windows 6.0 (the upgrade version 
from 2.0, actually).  The $&#%@ program insists on installing all the 
"common" MicroSoft applications (such as spell checker, chart maker, 
filters, etc.) on the same drive where I have the MS Windows program and 
system files.

This is a big problem for me, because I have my hard drive partitioned 
into 33 Meg logical drives.  Even with DoubleSpace, I am nearly out of 
room on the D: drive.  (There is probably a lot of junk in the system 
directory that could be deleted, but who the hell knows which DLLs or 
font files are still needed?!!)

Now, I went into WIN.INI, found all references to the common apps, and
changed the path to a different drive.  Then, of course, I also copied
all the program files for the common apps to the new drive and path.  (In
fact, I placed them in directories with the same path names as they
originally had on the D: drive;  only now they were on the E: drive, which
is also where I have Word for Windows 6 installed.)  I then restarted my
system, and restarted Windows.  

The long and short is, Word For Windows could not find the common
applications.  [I had to copy all the files back to D:, restore WIN.INI to
it's original state;  then Word for Windows was happy.  I was not.] 

Can anyone tell me how to move the common applications to a different
drive, and get MS Word for Windows to recognize them?  
[P.S.  I called MicroSoft tech support.  The fellow I spoke to, who was
very nice, acknowledged that other people had complained about the same
problem.  He had no solution to offer.]

(2) I appear to have version 6.0, not 6.0a or 6.0b, or whatever the latest
release is.  I base this on what it says under "About MicroSoft Word"
under the Help menu.  Does anyone know how I obtain the updated, bug-fixed
files.  Is there a MicroSoft FTP site, or do I have to call MicroSoft and
get updated disks? 

(3)  I have a proposal.  How 'bout if 1 million MicroSoft program users 
put up $1000 each, and buy MicroSoft stock, forming a large enough voting 
block to make those arrogant SOBs respond to the consumers?  Any takers?

Thanks in advance for all replies.

Steve Oppenheimer